NEWS EU POLITICS:

Dan Snow crowdfunds £160000 to back pro-EU political candidatesThe GuardianA campaign group led by the historian Dan Snow has crowdfunded £160,000 in two weeks to support progressive, internationalist and pro-EU parliamentary candidates. The group, More United, was launched after the referendum to support those seeking ...

Tougher rules threaten to choke off Ukip's EU fundingThe GuardianThe European parliament is tightening controls on political party funding, after several Eurosceptic groups were found to have misused EU grants. In one of the biggest cases of its kind, the Ukip-led ADDE was found to have misspent more than €500,000 ...

EU fraud case sheds light on Danish and Polish politicsEUobserverIt was a tough assignment - to write an article disclosing political party conventions, falsely pretending to be climate conferences, that were illegally paid for with EU money. It exposed that invoices for hundreds of thousands of euros were issued by ...